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Unit three.

Reading. Exercise three.

Head tails.

What have the faces of Mother Teresa of Calcutta,

the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa,

and Queen Elizabeth the Second got in common?

They all appear on coins or bank notes.

Some are still being used today.

Others are in museum collections around the world.

Portraits on coins and bank notes help us to understand the history of people, countries, and empires.

Most faces are of kings, queens, and heads of state.

But there are also faces of artists, musicians, explorers, inventors, scientists, religious leaders, and even the modern-day fictional wizard Harry Potter.

The Isle of Man government decided to make a limited edition of Harry Potter coins.

Harry's face is on the back of the coins, and Queen Elizabeth the Second's face is on the front.

The five pence coins cost thirty-nine pounds ninety-five,

but have a street value of five pence.

In two thousand and four, in Belgium, they made fifty thousand special ten euro coins to commemorate the Belgian writer Hergé's most famous characters.

Tintin and his dog Snowy appear on one side of the coin, and a map of Europe appears on the other side.

Collectors paid thirty-one euros for each coin.

Until nineteen ninety-one in New Zealand, the portraits on coins and bank notes were either heads of state or dead people.

Sir Edmund Hillary broke this rule.

His face appeared on five dollar bank notes.

Hillary was famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest in nineteen fifty-three.

He died in two thousand and eight.